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Basitarsus of middle legs about as long as the succeeding three 

 joints united ; tibial spur a trifle shorter than the basitarsus. 



This species has several structural aberrations. The prominent 

 median part of the metanotum is separated from the scutellum by 

 a distance equal to its own length and is not contiguous to the 

 scutellum as usual. The scutellum is slightly more rounded than 

 usual ; almost one and one-half times as long as wide (24 : 17 and 

 plainly shorter than the mesoscutum. Abdomen rather slender 

 toward the apex. 



Length 1.3 mm. 



Male. — Fronto vertex orange yellow ; face iridescent pearly white ; 

 cheeks yellow with a suffusion of brownish ; occiput blackish. Pro- 

 notum blackish. Mesoscutum broadly brownish orange laterally and 

 posteriorly, the center with V-shaped blackish area. Parapsides yel- 

 low, suffused with fuscous on the expanded part. Axillae black. 

 Scutellum blackish brown with an irregular median longitudinal 

 stripe that expands anteriorly and posteriorly. Tegulae yellow with 

 a dusky suffusion. Median part of metanotum light lemon yellow. 

 The following parts blackish : propodeum, abdomen, ventral and lat- 

 eral parts of thorax. Hind coxae blackish, fore and middle coxae 

 blackish at base, pale toward the apex. Apical tarsal joints of mid- 

 dle and hind legs fuscous, all fore tarsi slightly duslcy, remainder of 

 legs mostly light yellow. 



Antenna as shown in Figure 148. 



Length 1,3 mm. 



Type.— C^t. No. 42095, U.S.N.M. 



Described from two females and one male (holotype, allotype, 

 and paratype) mounted in balsam and slightly pressed. Two fe- 

 males reared by E. W. Rust from Baccacoccus species collected at 

 Signal Hill, Cape Town, South Africa, February 6, 7, 1925; male 

 obtained from the same locality by Rust on February 10, 1925, but 

 the slide label does not give a host. Rust's No. M-3. 



14. COCCOPHAGUS EMERSONI Girault 



Plate 11, Figure 116 



Coccophaffus emersoni Girault, Insecutor Inscitiae Menstruus, vol. 5, 1917, 

 pp. 29-30. 



A moderately small species. The coloration as described by Gi- 

 rault is no longer discernible, the orange having faded so that parts 

 originally described as orange now appear yellowish. The derm 

 on the yellowed portions of the mesoscutum and scutellum is semi- 

 translucent. Parts of the antennae are missing in the paratype 

 examined. 



FeTnale. — The following parts black: pronotum, anterior part of 

 mesoscutum, a spot on either parapsis, axillae, metanotum except 



